Blogging Roller

Slashdot announces The Official Launch of the Treo 650. This is perfect timing for me, because my existing phone - a Visor Platinum PDA with phone attachment - is about to die. Unfortunately, Sprint, which happens to be my carrier, has crippled the Treo 650 so that it cannot be used to connect a computer to the net. Guess it is time to ditch Sprint.

<img src="http://rollerweblogger.org/images/rollerbadge.png" alt="Powered by Roller" align="right" border="0" style="padding:10px" /> To set the Roller 1.0 release apart I created a new color scheme, new banner, and a new badge. You can see the new color scheme and banner on the main page of this site.

It sure would be nice to get a real web designer to help out with the Roller theme. I'm able to create designs that almost pass as professional, but are far from inspiring. And wouldn't it be nice to have a real logo like the beautiful one Matt scored for AppFuse?

I created a branch for Roller 1.0 and we are now working towards a Roller 1.0RC1 release this week. Before the RC1 release, I hope to update the Installation Guide and to write up a summary of the many changes that we've made since the last release - which was 0.9.8.3. After the RC1 release, I will work on testing, updating the User Guide, and creating a HSQLDB-based standalone demo release. Once we're happy with a Roller 1.0 RC on blogs.sun.com (and jroller.com), we'll release Roller 1.0.

Roller 1.0 is essentially same code base that is currently running on jroller.com, plus security, spam control, and user admin features needed for blogs.sun.com. Roller 1.0 has not yet been deployed either jroller.com or blogs.sun.com, but I hope to upgrade both sites before the final 1.0 release.

I met my stretch goal last week, which was to implement metaWeblog.newMediaObject. NewMediaObject makes it easy to upload images from a blog client such as Ecto or MarsEdit (and I've tested it with both).

Another stretch goal was to upgrade Roller's experimental Atom feed support to support Atom 0.3, which is the version of Atom currently supported by the feedvalidator. As you can see by clicking on the Atom badge above, I now have a valid Atom 0.3 newsfeed.